The Future

To address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emission, nearly 200 countries met in Paris in December 2015 and worked on global agreement.

• The United State would pledge to reduce emissions 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, improving on its Paris pledge of a 26% drop below 2005 levels by 2025.
• China would commit to peaking emissions by 2025, not 2030, and pledged to reduce 60% greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 below 2005 intensity.
• The EU would pledge to reduce emissions 47% below 1990 levels by 2030, improving on its Paris pledge of a 40% cut below 1990 levels.
• Other developed countries pledged 45% reduction below 2005 levels by 2030. Other developing countries would reach the peak by 2027.

Without the pledges, global temperatures would likely jump more than 8°F by 2100, the Paris pledges lower the likely increase to just over 6°F. However, the goal countries agreed to in 2010 was to limit the temperature increase to 3.6°F.